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Critical terms for the study of gender / edited by Catharine R. Stimpson and Gilbert Herdt.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Stimpson, Catharine R., 1936-
Herdt, Gilbert H., 1949-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Sex (Psychology)--Terminology.
Sex (Psychology).
Gender identity--Terminology.
Gender identity.
Genre:
Terminology.
Dictionaries.
Physical Description:
557 pages ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Summary:
This indispensable volume provides an introduction to the stuffy of gender through an exploration of key terms that are a part of everyday discourse in this vital subject. Catharine R. Stimpson and Gilbert Herdt first provide a careful account of the evolution of the study of gender and its relation to women's and sexuality studies, and the twenty one essays that follow span the study of gender and sexuality across the humanities and social sciences. Each essay presents the history of a given term-from bodies to utopia-and explains the conceptual importance it carries and the kinds of critical work it can be made to do. Distinguished contributors discuss concepts such as desire, identity, justice, kinship, love, race, and religion, revealing the unexpected histories, problems, and possibilities that each term opens up. The result is an essential reference for studying gender in many disciplinary contexts. Book jacket.
Contents:
Bodies / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
Culture / Kate Crehan
Desire / Lauren Berlant
Ethnicity / Anna Sampaio
Globalization / Carla Freeman
Human rights / Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg
Identity / Raewyn Connell
Justice / Jane Mansbridge
Kinship / Janet Carsten
Language / Deborah Cameron
Love / Lauren Berlant
Myth / Wendy Doniger
Nature / Anne Fausto-Sterling
Posthuman / Ruth A. Miller
Power / Wendy Brown and Joan W. Scott
Public/private / Michael Warner
Race / Hortense Spillers
Regulation / Judith Butler
Religion / Regina M. Schwartz
Sex/sexuality/sexual classification / David M. Halperin
Utopia / Sally L. Kitch.
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9780226774800
0226774805
9780226774817
0226774813
OCLC:
859446889

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